I created a character with 4 agilty. So he has dodge ascharacter creation.

When can he buy improved dodge which has the trait of Advanced, Active Defence? and how much would it cost.

I have been told Advanced = rank 2 so will cost 2 points to obtain this action card when rank 1.

But I thought Advanced meant you needed to have the basic version to convert it into this advanced version.

this counts only for advanced skills . for example education, medicine, spellcraft etc.

the advanced parry, dodge, block and so on are actions that can be bought at the price of 1 advance and replace the "normal" dodge etc in your action deck.

you still have to fulfill the rquirements of course. but other than that the advanced trait doesnt do anything i know of

errata doesn't say anything about an advanced Action, but it does talk about skills.

Skills: Advanced Skill Clarification

Accessing an advanced skill is a two-step process. A character cannot

attempt an advanced skill until he acquires the skill. Acquiring

an advanced skill is the first step in the process, at the cost of one

Skill Advance. Once an advanced skill has been acquired, a character

can attempt checks based on that skill, just as if it were a basic

skill on his list of basic skills.

Once an advanced skill has been acquired, the character now has

the option to train the skill, as he would any of the basic skills available

to him. Training the advanced skill would be the second step

in the process, and costs one Skill Advance.

Acquiring an advanced skill does not count against the training

limit imposed by character rank. This means a character can both

acquire and train an advanced skill within the same character rank.

However, the limit of training once per rank is still in effect.